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Trunk said that Anal Cunt guitarist Josh Martin, 45, fell from an escalator to his death around 10:45 p.m. Monday. Martin plunged off the upper level of the Providence Place Mall in Rhode Island to the food court below, and a witness said Martin was “clowning around” on the escalator.

Martin slammed his head on a table, was treated for trauma at the scene and was transported to Rhode Island Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Talk about extreme.

The name of the band is also extreme, and it’s so vulgar that a lot of media won’t spell it out. I’ve seen variations on the name: Anal C**t, Anal C–t, An*l C**t and AxCx.

Based on what I’ve seen on social media, it seems Anal Cunt has many loyal fans, even though the band has such repulsive song titles as “Hitler Was a Sensitive Man” and “Conor Clapton Committed Suicide Because His Father Sucks,” the latter changed for libel reasons. I guess one of their other songs, “Limp Bizkit Think They’re Black, but They’re Just Gay,” isn’t a problem.

All of this is a revelation to me, because I had never heard of Martin and Anal Cunt until Trunk told the story about the musician’s demise.

The Massachusetts grindcore band hasn’t been active since 2011, when founder and frontman Seth Putnam died of a suspected heart attack. I wonder if Putnam ever clowned around at the mall.

Billy Joe Jessup, 66, is a Mississippi good old boy who saw himself as the Southern Richard Meltzer back in 1974 and 1975. Jessup wrote two satiric sports articles for the rock music magazine Zoo World when he was in his early 20s, but ZW rejected his third article, killing his confidence so much that he battled writer's block for more than four decades until his Guy Hut breakthrough in March 2018.

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